Congressional Republicans could further empower Trump official Valerie Huber to disregard the Obama-era emphasis on highly effective forms of contraception and turn the nation's affordable birth control program into a bastion of abstinence and natural family planning.
Court documents uncovered by Rewire.News show that Cynthia Coffman spearheaded a successful effort 17 years ago to strip Planned Parenthood of state funds for its non-abortion family planning services.
The Trump administration has moved to roll back protections for transgender patients—leaving them reliant on federal courts and a patchwork of state policies.
Widely supported companion bills in Congress designed to fight online sex trafficking would do more harm than good, advocates say. The bills undermine the rights and safety of sex workers and trafficking victims, and in supporting them Democratic politicians are voting against their constituents' core values.
Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s legislation is unlikely to advance through the GOP-held U.S. House of Representative, but it underscores what advocates for reproductive rights and LGBTQ equality have called a license to discriminate.
![[Photo: A woman looks at her doctor.]](https://rewirenewsgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/shutterstock_102425257-800x533.jpg)
![[Photo: Gov. Jay Inslee sits forward while listening to a speaker at an event.]](https://rewirenewsgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/GettyImages-184124172-800x533.jpg)
![[Photo: A photo of Cynthia Coffman.]](https://rewirenewsgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Coffman-800x533.png)
![[Photo: 'The Bachelor' Arie Luyendyk Jr. holds a rose.]](https://rewirenewsgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/The-Bachelor-800x533.png)
![[Photo: Rickie, Myasia, and Katelyn.]](https://rewirenewsgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Frame-1-800x533.png)
![[Photo: Five women sit on a panel during the Power Rising Summit.]](https://rewirenewsgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Pic-from-ZL-800x533.jpeg)
![[Photo: Rep. Ann Wagner speaks to Congress about H.R. 1865, known as the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” or FOSTA.]](https://rewirenewsgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Ann-Wagner-800x533.png)
![[Photo: Teen demonstrators hold signs during a 'lie-in' demonstration supporting gun control reform near the White House.]](https://rewirenewsgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/GettyImages-920790820-800x533.jpg)
![[Photo: Pauli Muray writing at a desk.]](https://rewirenewsgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/UNCPauliMurray-800x533.png)
![[Photo: Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks at a podium with dozens of of Democratic members of the House of Representatives standing behind her.]](https://rewirenewsgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/GettyImages-675599962-800x533.jpg)